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Sqrrl Enterprise Simplifies Big Data App Development in GA Release

The big bottleneck for Big Data is application development. Today developers of are getting some significant help with the GA release of Sqrrl Enterprise.

Sqrrl, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company commercializing Apache Accumulo, has added a number of enhancements to version 1.1 of its security-focused Big Data analytic platform specifically aimed at simplifying the application development process. These include the ability to convert Accumulo key/value pairs into hierarchical JSON documents to streamline data models and structures, according to Sqrrl. The company also added better installation tools and command-line shells, new configurable indexing capabilities, and the ability to ingest streaming data.

There are also security enhancements, such as better integration with Active Directory, Kerberos and LDAP, as well as new analytics capabilities including full-text search, SQL support and graph analysis functions. Sqrrl is aiming its platform at developers in financial services firms and government agencies looking to build security-focused Big Data applications, as well as to application developers in healthcare and other highly regulated industries that demand fine-grained security and access control capabilities.

Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante said Big Data application development is still largely a complex, manual process, but new platforms like Sqrrl Enterprise are poised to change that.

“Developing Big Data applications is complicated and Sqrrl Enterprise substantially simplifies application development for emerging large scale apps,” Vellante said. “Wikibon practitioners are excited about Sqrrl toolsets because they enable organizations to co-mingle sensitive datasets on a single Big Data platform through fine-grained cell-level security controls. Scale, performance, security and flexibility will define the next wave of Big Data application development, and companies like Sqrrl are leading the way.”

About Kristen Nicole

Named by Forbes as a top influencer in Big Data, Kristen Nicole is currently a Senior Editor at SiliconANGLE.com. She got her start with 606tech, a Chicago blog she dedicated to the social media space, going on to become the lead writer and Field Editor at Mashable.
Kristen Nicole has also contributed to other publications, from TIME Techland to Forbes. Her work has been syndicated across a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, and MSNBC.
Kristen Nicole published her first book, The Twitter Survival Guide, and is currently completing her second book on predictive analytics.
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